Brett H. McGurk

Brett H. McGurk (20 April 1973-) was the US Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL from 23 October 2015 to 22 December 2018, succeeding John R. Allen.

Biography
Brett H. McGurk was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1973, and he grew up in West Hartford, Connecticut. He worked as a lawyer and then as a legal advisor, working with the US occupation forces in Baghdad during the Iraq War, and he served as a Senior Adviser to both the President and to the US ambassador to Iraq, surviving the transition from the George W. Bush administration to Barack Obama's administration. In 2013, he became Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Iraq and Iran in the State Department, and he was one of the first US officials to warn the government about the rise of ISIL in Iraq and Syria. From 2015 to 2018, he served as the Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL, and he retained his role in the counter-ISIL coalition under President Donald Trump. He resigned on 22 December 2018 in the wake of Trump's decision to end the US intervention in the Syrian Civil War.